@adiz @PraxisOfEvil 1962 conference in Mecca, the strategy was to use Wahhabism to avoid getting caught between the US and USSR during the cold war, and to hopefully avoid the same fate as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe. Israel is just the guys we propped up. The opposition is the US and Russia, has been since the entire region became a perpetual warzone. Putin's been telling Assad "no" more often because Putin wants a deadlock between Turkey, Iran, and Syria, Assad didn't work out, Iran is being set up to be our Ukraine equivalent. "Israeli opposition", my ass.

But there's zero "fighting opposition" if you're running down drunk tourists in New Orleans. It's just bullshit, it's just GTMO-bait, it's just trying to get the high score, it's just the CIA's excuse and the FBI's excuse and the NSA's excuse to pull more ridiculous shit and start more wars. (ISIS is probably half CIA-controlled nowadays anyway. Nothing more opportunities for kompromat than a purity spiral and nothing makes for a better purity spiral than a religious war.)